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Gunnerson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$186kReligion$71kEducation$65kFood & Nutrition$32kHealth$18kPublic Benefit$12kInternational$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$699k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TEMECULA$6,000
SALVATION ARMY$6,000
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$3,000
HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE$3,000
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES$3,000
ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN$3,000
SALVATION ARMY$3,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$3,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GLENDALE$3,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$2,000
ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 11%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 11%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 11%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 11%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 11%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 11%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 11%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $2k → 11%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $2k → 11%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $2k → 11%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $2k → 11%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $2k → 11%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $2k → 11%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $2k → 11%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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GA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$407k · 19 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
12

Total granted

$407k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+19%

Still filing today

53%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MU
    MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +23%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • NM
    Neighborhood Ministries Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +311%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY HURICANE IAN
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY - DEL ORO DIVISION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • OM
    ONE MISSION SOCIETY USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
2
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
3
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services
4
Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
7
Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc

We provide christ-centered, life-changing pathways for all people who are experiencing homelessness, hunger and addiction.

Human Services
8
Nourishphx

Nourishphx (fka icm food & clothing bank) is the trusted community hub serving vulnerable individuals and families by offering resources to satisfy immediate needs and to provide pathways to self-sufficiency.

Human Services
9
Las Vegas Rescue Mission

Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.

Human Services
10
Springfield Rescue Mission

The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…

Human Services
11
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

12
Good Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Inc

Our mission is to offer essential support, including nutritious food, warm clothing, secure shelter, financial assistance, valuable referrals, educational resources, and comprehensive life skills training to individuals in need. We bring…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY — $63,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY — $24,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TEMECULA — $22,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TEMECULADELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $18,000 · OtherDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDRENIndividual grant recipient — $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPURDUE CHRISTIAN HOUSE — $18,000 · OtherPURDUE CHRISTIAN HOUSETEAM — $18,000 · OtherTEAMDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS — $16,000 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS+14 more — $47,000 · Other+14 moreMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC — $65,000 · EducationMANCHESTER UNIVE…Neighborhood Ministries Inc — $24,000 · ReligionNeighborhood M…PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $24,000 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL…SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $7,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PU…HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE — $21,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF …Alternatives to Violence Inc — $16,000 · Human ServicesAlternati…ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $25,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $4,000 · Food & NutritionPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $12,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $2,000 · Public BenefitASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GLENDALE — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$244,000Education$65,000Religion$55,500Human Services$37,000Food & Nutrition$29,000Public Benefit$14,000Community Improvement$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC — $65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Ministries Inc — $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE — $21,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAlternatives to Violence Inc — $16,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIFTING 4 GIFTING — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GLENDALE — $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
  • Who funds HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE
  • Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN
  • Who funds Alternatives to Violence Inc
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County
  • Who funds THRIFTING 4 GIFTING
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GLENDALE
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gunnerson Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gunnerson Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gunnerson Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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